On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Hartmut Reuter <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> With these giant numbers of snapshots I see some other problems:
>
> If there should coexist multiple snapshots in the same partition
> belonging to the same volume group the present design of the linktable
> of the NAMEI-fileserver will break because it allows only a limited
> number of versions (5) and a limited value for the link count (7) per
> version of a vnode number's data.
>

that's not a protocol issue.


>
> Also if the volume id should become 64 bit certainly the NAMEI mapping
> algorithm of volume ids to directory trees would have to change.
> This change would not only affect the fileserver, volserver and
> salvager, but also rxosd.
>

same deal
_______________________________________________
AFS3-standardization mailing list
[email protected]
http://michigan-openafs-lists.central.org/mailman/listinfo/afs3-standardization

Reply via email to